I have been reading a lot about this issue and even tried the Xorg "AccelMethod" "XAA" from one of the earlier posts. It rendered my notebook unable to boot Ubuntu 9.04 at all, and I had to use the Recovery / automatically repair graphics tool (which restored the original Xorg.conf file) to get it back.
But now that I see someone else is dealing with a VAIO PCG-R505 ( I have a 505DL) I'd like to input what I have learned about the whole Intel 82830M Graphics Driver issue while previously building an Ultimate Boot Disc 4 Windows from downloaded files. At first, it would not boot the 505 either. But eventually I discovered why. On the Intel.com/support/graphics site I ran their Driver Update Utility from Windows XP on the 505 to see what I could learn about the driver it was using. Intel had this to say: "A customized computer manufacturer driver is installed on your computer. The Intel Driver Update Utility is not able to update the driver. Installing a generic Intel driver instead of the customized computer manufacturer driver may cause technical issues. Contact your computer manufacturer for the latest driver for your computer. So they are saying Sony modified their driver in order to make it work on the VAIO, and it is obvious they don't recommend trying to use any other driver. Now, Sony has only ever released 2 versions of the driver, and the last one was in 2003. I think the bottom line is going to be the same here as it was in building that boot disc. What I had to do was extract the graphics driver from the running WinXP OS on the Sony, and replace the generic Intel 8.xxx driver package in the files that were provided to make the ISO and burn the disc. In so doing, the disc will work on the Sony, and I have used it several times. So somehow Ubuntu 9.04 either needs to be set up to use the windows driver specific to each of our notebooks, or someone is going to have to figure out a workaround to let the generic driver do all that each of those "computer manufacturer drivers" do, which I imagine is an impossible task, and why Intel won't do it. If the problem is ever solved, I think that will be the way it is done. -- Fonts corrupted on Thinkpad X30 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
